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More younger people are getting hit with all sorts of different cancers, and microplastics may be one big risk factor.

Microplastics Likely Causing Wave of Cancer in Young People

By Sharon Adarlo

For the first time, scientists have found microplastics in human penises, highlighting the need to study their potential effects on health.

Microplastics Found in Human Penises

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found microplastics in all 40 semen samples taken from healthy men, highlighting a need to study effects on reproduction.

Scientists Found Microplastics in Every Human Semen Sample They Examined

By Victor Tangermann

It's becoming ever more evident that once someone figures out how to remove microplastics from our bodies, they're going to make a killing.

Health & Medicine

Whoever Figures Out How to Remove Microplastics From the Human Body Is Going to Make a Fortune

By Noor Al-Sibai

No ifs, ands, or nuts about it — microplastics are everywhere, including in every human testicle tested for a new study.

Microplastics Found in Every Human Testicle

By Noor Al-Sibai

British archaeologists have found microplastics amidst historic sediment excavated in York that date as early as the 1st and 2nd centuries.

Scientists Alarmed to Discover Microplastics in Ancient Archaeological Dig

By Sharon Adarlo

A new study linked the presence of microplastics in artery-clogging plaque to a higher risk of heart disease and even death.

Microplastics Found Clogging Human Arteries

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers found microplastics in layers of sediment that date back as early as the first half of the 18th Century.

Science & Energy

Microplastics Found in Sediment Layers Untouched by Modern Humans

By Sharon Adarlo

Following a shocking study, the bottled water industry has cried foul, claiming that it's totally fine we're all ingesting nanoplastics.

Bottled Water Industry Says Please Disregard This Horrifying Discovery About Our Product

By Victor Tangermann

There's way more plastic particles in bottled water than previously thought, and this means untold impacts on humans and our environment.

Scientists Find Bottled Water Filled With Hundreds of Thousands of Microplastics

By Sharon Adarlo

A Consumer Reports investigation has found a plastic ingredient known as phthalate at worrying high levels in supermarket and fast food items.

Scientists Found Hazardous Phthalates in Almost Every Food They Tested

By Frank Landymore

Scientists now have come across strange types of rock that contain manmade plastic in all five inhabited continents.

Science & Energy

Scientists Warn That Plastic Rocks Are Appearing Across the World

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers in China discovered that microplastics could be affecting the formation of the clouds they're found in.

Microplastics Inside Clouds May Be Changing Global Weather, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Car tires are leaching hundreds of chemicals and microplastics, including known carcinogenics, into the ocean, worrying scientists.

Science & Energy

Your Evil Car Is Filling the Ocean With Microplastics, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Even a cave that's been closed to the public for three decades can't escape the reach of microplastic particles.

Scientists Find Microplastics in Cave Sealed Off From All Humans

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have discovered microplastics inside rain clouds, indicating that the particles are contaminating nearly every part of nature.

Scientists Find Microplastics Inside Clouds

By Victor Tangermann

A new study found that "acute exposure" to microplastics causes dementia-like symptoms in mice, in addition to other behavioral shifts.

Scientists Find That Microplastics Cause Dementia-Like Symptoms in Mice

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have developed a new technique that filters out microplastics from drinking water — and its ingredients are all plant-based.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say New Device Can Scrub 99.9 Percent of Microplastics From Water

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microplastics have been found inside human heart tissues — though as the scientists who found them note, it's not all that surprising.

Scientists Puzzled to Find Plastic Fragments Inside Human Hearts

By Noor Al-Sibai

The dust floating around the International Space Station is worse than what's milling around in your house or apartment, researchers found.

Scientists Alarmed by What Space Station Astronauts Appear to Be Breathing

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research has found that microwaving plastic food containers spews out toxic microplastics — and it's freaked out the guy studying it.

After Seeing This Terrifying Study, We’re Never Microwaving Plastic Again

By Noor Al-Sibai

While recycling campaigns help limit what heads to the landfill, scientists are saying that it's masked the growing waste crisis.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say Recycling Has Backfired Spectacularly

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers just confirmed that nanoplastics can cause wretched malformations and growth defects in baby chicks when injected into chicken embryos.

Tiny Amounts of Plastic Cause Horrifying Problems in Chicken Embryos

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers were shocked to find that the rate of plastic entering our oceans is rapidly increasing even faster than expected.

The Ocean’s Plastic Pollution Has Spiked to “Unprecedented” Levels

By Frank Landymore

For the first time, microplastics have been discovered in human breastmilk. Experts are deeply concerned about the potential implications for infant health.

Scientists Find Microplastics in Human Breastmilk

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have discovered polluting microplastic in the lungs of living people for the first time, more proof that the particles are practically everywhere.

Scientists Find Microplastics Deep Inside Human Lungs

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists took a look at blood samples from 22 healthy, adult donors and discovered microplastic particles in 17 of them.

Oh Great: Scientists Are Finding Microplastics in Human Blood Now

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers in Norway have discovered evidence of microplastic in newborn babies. They believe it's impossible to stop kids from ingesting plastic.

Researchers Find Microplastics Inside Newborn Babies

By Tony Ho Tran

Increasing levels of s ynthetic chemicals and plastics found in the environment and inside our bodies could wreak havoc on our reproductive system.

Pollution Is Shrinking Human Penises, Warns Famous Environmentalist

By Victor Tangermann

A team from Arizona State University found nanoplastic particles in all 47 examined human lungs, liver, spleen, and kidney samples.

Scientists Find Microplastics Inside Human Organs

By Victor Tangermann

A new German study concluded that 97 percent of blood and urine samples from 2,500 chidlren between three and 17 showed toxic levels of plastic byproducts.

Scientists Tested Children and 97 Percent Contained Toxic Plastic Byproducts

By Victor Tangermann

The EU is considering a microplastics ban that would prevent 40,000 tons of the tiny particles from entering the environment every year.

Science & Energy

The EU Is Considering a Major Microplastics Ban

By Kristin Houser

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Microplastics Are Already in Our Bodies, According to a New Study

By Dan Robitzski

You’re Probably Drinking Microplastics With Your Bottled Water

You’re Probably Drinking Microplastics With Your Bottled Water

By Alexandra Ossola

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Science & Energy

Whales and Sharks Are the New Victims of Our Plastic Waste, Study Finds

By Chelsea Gohd